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  • Lady at the O.K. Corralby Ann Kirschner

    HarperCollins 2013; US$ 21.99

    Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp by Ann Kirschner is the definitive biography of a Jewish girl from New York who won the heart of Wyatt Earp. For nearly fifty years, she was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp: hero of the O.K. Corral and the most famous lawman of the Old West. Yet Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp has nearly... more...

  • IB History of the Americasby Tom Leppard; Alexis Mamaux; Mark Rogers

    Oxford University Press 2011; US$ 41.61

    Designed for IB Higher Level History option 3, this book will provide students with in-depth material for 7 of the 12 units that make up the option (1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 12). Written by five experienced IB teachers, examiners, workshop leaders and curriculum writers. more...

  • American Cultural Studiesby Neil Campbell; Alasdair Kean

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 41.95

    Praise for previous editions: 'Something of a godsend ... as a teaching resource this book is second to none ... achieves levels of multiplicity rarely, if ever, reached by others.' - Borderlines: Studies in American Culture This third edition of American Cultural Studies has been updated throughout to take into account the developments of... more...

  • The Lost King of France: The Tragic Story of Marie-Antoinette's Favourite Son (Text Only Edition)by Deborah Cadbury

    HarperCollins Publishers 2012; Not Available

    ?This is history as it should be. It is stunningly written, I could not put it down. This is the best account of the French Revolution I have ever read.? Alison Weir, author of ?Henry VIII, King and Court? more...

  • No Easy Dayby Mark Owen With Kevin Maurer

    Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not Available

    No Easy Day by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer is the first-person account of Bin Laden's execution. For the first time anywhere, a first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from inside the US Navy SEAL team who carried out the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist mastermind. No Easy Day puts... more...

  • Cracking the AP U.S. History Exam, 2013 Editionby Princeton Review

    Random House Information Group 2012; US$ 18.99

    If you need to know it, it?s in this book. Cracking the AP U.S. History, 2013 Edition has been optimized for e-reader viewing with cross-linked questions, answers, and explanations, and includes:    ? 2 full-length practice tests with detailed explanations     ? In-depth history review of key and terms and concepts organized by time period, ... more...

  • Killing Kennedyby Martin Dugard; Bill O'Reilly

    Pan Macmillan 2012; US$ 16.62

    More than a million readers have thrilled to Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln, the page-turning work of non-fiction about the shocking assassination that changed the course of American history. Now the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts in gripping detail the brutal muder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy - and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon... more...

  • The American Dreamby Jim Cullen

    Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 19.99

    This work discusses the reality of the ambiguous but galvanizing concept of the American Dream, a concept that for better and worse has proven to be amazingly elastic and durable for hundreds of years and across racial, class, and other demographic lines. more...

  • Parting the Watersby Taylor Branch

    Simon & Schuster 2007; US$ 22.00

    Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the Kennedy brothers weighed demands for justice against the deceptions of J. Edgar Hoover, here is a... more...

  • Byronic Heroby Peter L. Thorslev

    University of Minnesota Press 1962; US$ 67.50

    The Byronic Hero was first published in 1962. This study of the origins and development of the Romantic hero through its apogee in the works of Byron critically examines the major Romantic heroes of comparative literature and places them in the wider perspective of history. Professor Thorslev devotes the first part of his discussion to the cultural... more...